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Paper Towns

by John Green Publisher: PUFFIN BOOKS

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An imagined portrait, and the clues left behind

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Edgar Award winner

    Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery.

  • Bestseller

    #1 New York Times bestseller

    Described as a #1 New York Times bestseller.

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An imagined portrait, and the clues left behind

Quentin’s long-held image of Margo is unsettled when she disappears after drawing him into a night of revenge. The clues she leaves give him a way to search for her, while also raising questions about how well he knows the person he has admired from afar. The search links a missing-person mystery with a coming-of-age story about friendship, romance, and the gap between an idea of someone and the person themselves. Set in a contemporary young-adult context, the novel’s central tension is not only whether Quentin can find Margo, but what the search reveals about his assumptions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in contemporary young-adult fiction.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining a search for a missing person with coming-of-age themes.
  • Readers interested in friendship, romance, and the difference between an imagined person and a real one.

Themes

Coming of ageFriendshipContemporary romanceIdealization and identitySearching for a missing person

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Book overview

Winner of the Edgar Award
The #1 New York Times Bestseller
Publishers Weekly and USA Today Bestseller

Millions of Copies Sold
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life--summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge--he follows. When their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Margo has disappeared. But Q soon learns that there are clues--and they're for him. Embarking on an exhilarating adventure to find her, the closer Q gets, the less he sees the girl he thought he knew.

#1 Bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars John Green crafts a brilliantly funny and moving coming-of-age journey about true friendship and true love.
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